Originally Posted by
brian_dromey
As rog747 points out the capacity lost from the Canadian 737s and the 757/767 fleet has to be found somewhere. Offering Ryanair, easyJet and even BA as options for customers is great. Our ski holiday is often a package, to be honest we’re fairly agnostic - it’s usually depends on the rest of the group and their requirements for ski school / kids clubs. Our strong preference is for Heathrow, it’s a 25 minute taxi and avoids the M25. Crystal offer BA flights, so thats what we choose. Not because we have a particular aversion to TUI, or a white-label airline, it’s just more convenient. We often have a few flights to choose from on a given day, so thats great as well, but the Crystal/TUI website doesn’t offer all the flights on a given day, its just a sub-set. Ryanair and easyJet bring that convenience and choice to regional airports.
Is there really much difference between a Ryanair 189 seat 738 and a TUI one?
Is this how far TUI have fallen? People don’t see a difference between them and Ryanair?
Ryanair offer a great deal of options for low cost travel all over Europe and should be commended for that. From speaking to numerous people who have worked for them, I also believe their training department is first class.
However, customer service is non existent, the way the treat passengers is awful. They are non league when it comes to quality and service, also very tacky.
TUI on the other hand have always been a top quality service and ranked highly and rightly so.
These new age comparisons are shocking and very disappointing. I struggle to understand why TUI have fallen so far that some people see no difference between a TUI flight from the UK to Spain or a Ryanair flight on the same route.